I
am focusing on prosperity this month. I'm calling it the Merry Month
of Money! Remember that song from Camelot that starts out "It's
May, It's May .. the merry month of May .." truth is the words
are "It's May! It's May!... The lusty month of May!"
And
money is something many of us lust after -- OK, maybe it's not
actually 'money', but the things money can buy. For instance, I'm
lusting after a Rav 4 and a Samsung Galaxy tablet. I'm lusting
after the time when I see a great deal on a cruise or a trip and just
buy it without having to figure out the money details. I'm lusting
after a building for our Center. I'm lusting after seeing the monthly
financial reports always in the black.
In
Old English, "lust" referred generally to desire, appetite,
or pleasure. Then somehow lust became associated with sexual desire,
and declared bad by the church. Indeed many religions are based on
letting go of desires. We got an idea that lusting - or desiring
material things - is wrong.
The
Truth is we are Spirit, having a material experience. We're living
in a material world that we're making up as we go along and it's all
here to play with, to enjoy.
If
you've been thinking that having the things of this world is not
spiritual, then think again. Why would God, as infinitely
intelligent and as unconditionally loving as It is, give us desires,
and then say no, you can't follow them? Why would It give us ideas
of wonderful things to create, and then say no, you can't have them?
Any "no" we hear comes from our culture, or our
upbringing.
Let's
do what we can this month to move beyond that old programing and
realize that we're ready and willing to accept all of Life's
blessings!
Here
is an affirmation treatment Dr. Eric Butterworth wrote in Spiritual
Economics:
I am secure, for I know who I am; a richly endowed child of God.
I am secure in all I do, for I know my oneness with the divine process.
I am secure in all I have, for know my treasure is in my mind, not in my things.
I live my life from day to day as if God's supportive substance were as exhaustless and dependable as the air I breathe, which it most certainly is." And so it is!
I am secure, for I know who I am; a richly endowed child of God.
I am secure in all I do, for I know my oneness with the divine process.
I am secure in all I have, for know my treasure is in my mind, not in my things.
I live my life from day to day as if God's supportive substance were as exhaustless and dependable as the air I breathe, which it most certainly is." And so it is!
